1   Then ^note sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?

2    ^noteAnd he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. ^noteThat God of ^note glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, while he was in ^note Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

3   And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee.

4   Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,

5   And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the ^note bredth of a foote: yet he ^note promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.

6   But God spake thus, that his ^note seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill ^note foure hundreth yeeres.

7   But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage, will I iudge, sayth God: and after that, they shall come forth and serue me in this place.

8    ^noteHee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate ^note Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate ^note Iacob, and Iacob the twelue ^note Patriarkes.

9    ^noteAnd the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde ^note Ioseph into Egypt: but God was ^note with him,

10   And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and ^note gaue him ^note fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house.

11   ¶2; Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.

12   But when ^note Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:

13    ^noteAnd at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.

14   Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.

15   So ^note Iacob went downe into Egypt, and he ^note dyed, and our fathers,

16   And were ^note remoued into Sychem, and were put in the sepulchre, that Abraham had bought ^note for money of the sonnes of Emor, sonne of Sychem.

17   But when the time of the promes drewe neere, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people ^note grewe and multiplied in Egypt,

Steuens answere. Of Moses.

18   Till another King arose, which knewe not Ioseph.

19   The same ^note dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their yong children, that they should not remaine aliue.

20    ^noteThe same time was Moses borne, and was ^note acceptable vnto God, which was nourished vp in his fathers house three moneths.

21   And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

22   And Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians, and was mightie in wordes and in deedes.

23   Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the children of Israel.

24    ^noteAnd wh&ebar; he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, & auenged his quarell that had the harme done to him, and smote the Egyptian.

25   For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance: but they vnderstoode it not.

26    ^noteAnd the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one againe, saying, Syrs, ye are brethren: why doe ye wrong one to another?

27   But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince, and a iudge ouer vs?

28   Wilt thou kill mee, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

29   Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.

30   And when fourtie yeres were expired, there appeared to him in the ^note wildernes of mo&ubar;t Sina, an ^note Angel of the Lord in a flame of fire, in a bush.

31   And when Moses sawe it, hee wondred at the sight: and as he drew neere to consider it, the voyce of the Lord came vnto him, saying,

32   I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Then Moses trembled, & durst not behold it.

33   Then the Lord said to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feete: for the place where thou standest, is holy ground.

34   I haue seene, I haue seene the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt, & I haue heard their groning, and am come downe to deliuer them: and nowe come, and I will sende thee into Egypt.

35   This Moses whome they forsooke, saying, Who made thee a prince and a iudge? the same God sent for a prince, & a deliuerer by the ^note hand of the Angel, which appeared to him in the bush.

36   Hee ^note brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in the wildernes ^note fourtie yeeres.

37    ^noteThis is that Moses, which saide vnto the children of Israel, ^note A Prophet shall the Lorde your God raise vp vnto you, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: him shall ye heare.

38    ^noteThis is he that was in the Congregation, in the wildernes with the Angell, which spake to him in mount Sina, and with our fathers, who receiued the liuely oracles to giue vnto vs.

39   To whom our fathers would not obey, but refused, and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt: God dwelleth nor in Temples.

40   Saying vnto Aaron, ^note Make vs gods that may goe before vs: for we knowe not what is become of this Moses that brought vs out of the land of Egypt.

41   And they made a ^note calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice vnto the idole, and reioyced in the workes of their owne handes.

42   Then God turned himselfe away, and ^note gaue them vp to serue the ^note host of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, ^note O house of Israel, haue ye offred to me slaine beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourtie yeres in the wildernes?

43   And ye ^note tooke vp the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures, which ye made to worship them: therefore I will carie you away beyond Babylon.

44    ^noteOur fathers had the tabernacle of ^note witnes, in the wildernes, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto ^note Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seene.

45    ^noteWhich tabernacle also our fathers ^note receiued, and brought in with Iesus into the ^note possession of the Gentiles, which God draue out ^note before our fathers, vnto the dayes of Dauid:

46    ^noteWho found fauour before God, and desired that hee might finde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob.

47    ^{note note}But Solomon built him an house.

48   Howbeit the most High ^note dwelleth not in temples made with handes, as saith the Prophet,

49    ^noteHeauen is my throne, and earth is my footestoole: what house wil ye build for me, saith the Lord? or what place is it that I should rest in?

50   Hath not mine hand made all these things?

51    ^{note note}Ye stiffenecked and of ^note vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.

52   Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? & they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,

53    ^noteWhich haue receiued the Lawe by the ^note ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.

54    ^noteBut when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

55    ^noteBut he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, & Iesus ^note standing at the right hand of God,

56   And said, Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God.

57    ^noteThen they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ^note ranne vpon him violently all at once,

58   And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the ^note witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, named Saul.

59   And they stoned Steuen, who called on

Of Simon Magus. God, and said, Lord Iesus, receiue my spirit.

60    ^noteAnd he kneeled downe, and cried with a loude voyce, Lorde, ^note laye not this sinne to their charge. And when he had thus spoken, he ^note slept.

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